Threats Humans are the main cause for rainforests disappearing because…. · Wood for both timber and wood for making fires · Agriculture for both small and large farms · Road construction · And one of the main causes of deforestation is logging for furniture, flooring, and construction. · Some threats are from forest fires (on accident mostly) · Some cut down land are from the farmers · Farming is one of the major deforestation reasons · The farmers mainly farm oil palm · Mining in the rainforest has found bauxite which is made into aluminum
Importance of the rainforest · It is a home for animals and plants · It helps the world climate stabilize · It is protection against erosion, drought, and flood · It supports the tribal peoples needs · People can make spices out of some resources · Some spices are allspice, vanilla, cacao, cassava, ginger, bananas, black pepper, sugar cane, nutmeg, and lots more. · The trees and plants in the rain forest remove the carbon dioxide in the air and store it in their roots, leaves, branches, and stems. · It also helps trap heat in the atmosphere.
Abiotic factors Weather- · Rain can fall 80 to 400 inches, (AKA 2 meters) it can rain as fast as 2 inches an hour. · Some water evaporates from the trees leaves and goes somewhere else and rains down the evaporated rain.
Climates- · It is mostly wet is very tropical, warm all year long. The rainforest affects the world’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Temperature- · Its normal temperature would be 70 degrees to 85 degrees fare height. (24 -27 degrees Celsius ) the rainforest never gets really hot but is never freezing cold Soil- The soil is only 3-4 inches deep and thick like clay lies beneath the soil if any damage done to the clay it might take a while to recover. The soil is ancient and there is little of it
Threats
Humans are the main cause for rainforests disappearing because….
· Wood for both timber and wood for making fires
· Agriculture for both small and large farms
· Road construction
· And one of the main causes of deforestation is logging for furniture, flooring, and construction.
· Some threats are from forest fires (on accident mostly)
· Some cut down land are from the farmers
· Farming is one of the major deforestation reasons
· The farmers mainly farm oil palm
· Mining in the rainforest has found bauxite which is made into aluminum
Importance of the rainforest
· It is a home for animals and plants
· It helps the world climate stabilize
· It is protection against erosion, drought, and flood
· It supports the tribal peoples needs
· People can make spices out of some resources
· Some spices are allspice, vanilla, cacao, cassava, ginger, bananas, black pepper, sugar cane, nutmeg, and lots more.
· The trees and plants in the rain forest remove the carbon dioxide in the air and store it in their roots, leaves, branches, and stems.
· It also helps trap heat in the atmosphere.
Abiotic factors
Weather-
· Rain can fall 80 to 400 inches, (AKA 2 meters) it can rain as fast as 2 inches an hour.
· Some water evaporates from the trees leaves and goes somewhere else and rains down the evaporated rain.
Climates-
· It is mostly wet is very tropical, warm all year long. The rainforest affects the world’s climate by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Temperature-
· Its normal temperature would be 70 degrees to 85 degrees fare height. (24 -27 degrees Celsius ) the rainforest never gets really hot but is never freezing cold
Soil-
The soil is only 3-4 inches deep and thick like clay lies beneath the soil if any damage done to the clay it might take a while to recover. The soil is ancient and there is little of it
Food Web
Biotic Factors
Animal list
- Ocelot
- Toucan
- Poison dart frog
- Leaf cutter ant
- Black caiman
- Golden lion
- Vampire bat
- Anaconda
- Kinkajou
Plant listAttributions
Original image: 'Bixa fruits, the lipstick plant' `
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Original image: 'Stereum ostrea (Golden Curtain Crust)'
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Original image: 'Ericaceae flowers in the rainforest'
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by: L S
Original image: 'snaky vine (Bauhinia, Fabaceae)'
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by: L S